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Traditional troubleshooting techniques that seem obvious, like "half split" or "rubber ducking", are often not used.

Teaching some of these can dramatically reduce downtime.




Wasn't familiar with the terminology, but looking it up I've called the split half technique binary searching because of its similarity to that algorithm from computer science.


Ah, yes. The "split half" is the common term for troubleshooting electronics, and as you say, similar to a binary search.




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